-={ Sunday, 06 March 2016, 22:39:36 -0600 }=-

Hey Nicholas!

 NB> I just did, and it does indeed work both reading and writing UTF-8
 NB> from the BBS.

It just keeps on getting better and better.  :-)

 NB> However, the BBS displays most things in ANSI, so everything else
 NB> but the messages look like garbage.

ANSI *should* work but will require a rewrite to get rid of all the DOS-think
leakage accumulated over the years by developers and ansi artists who bought
into the IBM 8 bit codepage scheme.  Personally I don't bother but have used
ANSI colours to highlight text every now and then.  That idea works just fine
with ALL text up to and including including utf8 characters.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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